Hey, everyone, Kelsey here and welcome back to Gal.
Today you're going to learn how to create this really cool 3D
fly through text like the camera's going through the text.
And actually, this was suggested by one of my patrons who saw this effect
on the TV series Blind Spot, and I thought it was a great idea.
Now this effect is actually easier than you'd expect.
first of all, you just need to get a drone shot,
whether you fly your own drone and get the shot
or you get it as a stock video clip like I did.
The key is that it has steady forward motion and that weigh in after effects.
We can track using the 3D tracker to find a plane
that we can attach the text to and then make the text 3D.
So of course, I'm going to break down each step.
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Without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into after effects
and show you how to create this 3D fly through text.
So the first step here is to right click
on your footage and create a new comp from the selection.
This will create a new composition with your footage inside.
Then this is very important.
You need to make sure you go to the hamburger menu and go to composition
settings.
Go to the 3D renderer and make sure that it's set to Cinema 4D
because this will allow you to extrude the text later on to make it 3D.
And if you want it to perform faster for now,
you can always reduce the quality to one, which is what I have done,
and you can always go back and change that later on.
All right.
So hit OK, and now we can go to the tracker panel,
impress track camera
and what this is going to do is analyze
the entire shot and create a series of 3-D tracking points
from which we can then apply text to as well as a 3-D camera.
Now this will take longer than other clips if the clip is in a 4K
or A.K resolution, and it'll take longer, depending on how long the clip is.
But if it's just for an opening title shot,
it's probably only going to be about ten or 15 seconds or so.
So it shouldn't take that long.
And once it's done analyzing in the background,
it'll go to solving the camera.
So I'll just wait here.
If it's taken a long time, you can always go and grab a cup of coffee or something.
And when you get back, you'll see all the tracking points.
All right, so here you can start to see these little tracking points
if I hover over it.
You get this little target visual that's kind of basically
saying where the tax is going to lay against.
So if you do it on the wall here, it'll lay against the wall of the building.
Now, if it's hard to see, you can go to effect controls and you can see the effect
that was applied with a 3D camera tracker here.
You can increase the track size.
So here I will increase it to 300% so you can better see the track points.
And for this one, I'm going to get a nice spot on the ground.
So this point right here is the moment that I'm choosing,
so I want it to be exactly parallel to the ground.
I'm going to click in a will, create three points and then this is what you do.
You right click, create text and camera.
So now when we play it back, you can see the text
is pretty much glued to the ground and completely track.
We just need to adjust the position.
And what we want the text to say and then add some 3D depth to that.
So to up to the text orientation, if you click on this,
you'll now see that we have these controls the X,
the Y in the z axis and the X Z.
The reason we have this is because we made sure
in the composition settings that we had Cinema 4D applied.
If you also open up the text layer, you'll see that underneath transform.
There's the X, Y and Z controls, which is useful to know.
So what I'm going to do first is use the X rotation the Red Circle here
to prop this up.
And so now it's standing up.
Now we can use the Y to rotate it around and the Z-axis
to rotate it like a teeter totter until it's parallel to the ground.
It may not be perfect, but you can play around with this and then the X and Z.
If you push this back, it'll push it back into space
and you can bring it also forward.
So I think about right here is fine.
And then, of course, I can rotate the Y a little bit more.
You can always go back in, you know, play around with the text.
If you go just select the TaxSlayer, you can click and you can actually pull it up.
So it's kind of floating like in that original shot
from Blindspot, the TV show, it's going to rotate it a little bit more.
That's looking good.
And now, of course, you can update the text to be anything
you can click and let's just call it 3D 3-D for this.
And I will update it to extra board is fine.
I might increase the font a little bit.
I think that's just fine.
So you can play around with the character parameters if you like.
Next, let's make it 3-D.
So from the tech slayer. Open this up.
Go to geometry options, and here we can add some depth.
So if we increase the depth, you'll see some depth happening here.
But remember, we need to add some light to be able
to see the shadows in the texture.
So right now we added depth, but we didn't add any light.
So you can't see much here.
You can also play around with the bevel depth.
Once we add some lights,
if you want to create 3D text with like different lights with different colors
and add more texture, you can check out my tutorial up here
to get to know 3D text a little bit more.
But first, we need to create some lights, so
let's right click go to new light.
And for the first one, I'm going to create an ambient light,
which will just create a general light over the 3D text and hit OK.
And now we need to create a spotlight which will start to add dimension.
So right click New Light
and let's choose Spot,
and I'm going to choose 80%, but you can always change this later.
And then I'm also going to make sure cast shadows are on and press, OK,
now the light was placed way far back, so we need to move this light
kind of like we move the text just before using these 3D controls.
So make sure that you're
using the selection tool by pressing V on your keyboard as well.
And let's move this.
Light back up here, and we can also change
the point of interest, so can move this until we get in the right spot.
Maybe up here on the right.
And then I actually like to go down into the lair itself
and go to the transform tools here
and here.
Point of interest, I want to rotate the light now.
Oh, there we go.
Now we can see some shadows happening in.
Move the ax down.
That's looking really good.
So you can move the point of interest to be pointed
at the text until it looks right for your scene.
So I'm just adding one light that you can play around with, but you can
also add another light, for example, just below to add some more texture.
So you would just go through the same
process and move the light until it looks right for this scene.
I'm just going to have one,
so I'm going to close up this light here and now this is really cool.
Now you can see the text
is literally floating in the scene and we're going through the letters.
So if you're actually hitting one of the letters, remember you can,
you know, click on this text and you can move it.
So that way, when we go through it, it's like we're going exactly
through the letters.
And I think now I'm actually going to move the y axis.
So it's more.
Perpendicular to the road,
and I think that looks a little bit better in the x axis as well.
And that's looking pretty good.
So again, it depends on, you know, the actual word that you're flying through
because you might actually want to go through the letter O, for example.
But I think this is really cool that we're flying through the text.
And if you want to have faster playback, you can click on draft 3D
and it actually shows you a graph on the sky.
So as we hit play here, it's just a little bit faster playback.
And I don't know, I think it looks super cool.
I love that fly through text,
and what's so cool is it's just using the movement of the drone.
We didn't have to do any animation or anything like that.
And to top it off, we can also add some Beverly, like I was telling you before.
So you go to the text layer bevel style
and we can choose one of the bubble styles here.
I'm going to choose Convex and I'm going to make it.
I don't know, maybe point seven, maybe a little bit to less.
Let's try one. I think that looks good.
Analyst turn-off off draft 3D.
And this is the final effect.
So this effect
is actually super easy to do because of the 3-D tracker.
Literally, it makes the text glued to that one spot,
so you get to fly through it just using the movement of the drones.
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